The Strokes won their first Grammy Award at last night’s ceremony, for their album “The New Abnormal” in the Rock Album category.
Rolling Stone referred to the album as “their best since the glory days of the early ’00s.”
“Sounds better to me than almost anything else I’ve listened to this spring,” said the New York Times of the album released in April 2020.
“The New Abnormal” was recorded at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu and produced by Rick Rubin. The album’s cover artwork is a painting by New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Bird on Money.”
The Strokes are singer Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti. The New York based band formed in Manhattan in 1998.